A man who admitted assaulting his mother whilst living with his parents in Narberth has been given a six-month restraining order to keep him away from them.
Twenty-six-year-old Thomas Richards, of Neath Road, Hafod, Swansea, admitted a charge of assaulting his mother, Emma Richards, when he appeared at Haverfordwest Magistrates Court last week.
The defendant also pleaded guilty to damaging a door window belonging to his father, Christopher Richards, at the same hearing on April 27.
The court heard that on March 13, Mr. Richards had given his mother a black eye, after he’d used the flat of his hand to give her a ‘palm-off to the face’, after she had come to pick him up in her car after a night out in Haverfordwest.
The defendant also admitted smashing a pane of glass in the back door of the family home on the same date.
Magistrates gave Mr. Richards a six-month restraining order to keep him away from his parents, and also a 12-month community order, complete with a 15-day rehabilitation requirement to address his drinking, and 100 hours of unpaid work.
He was ordered to pay a total of £300 in costs and a £60 victim surcharge, as well as compensation of £111.60 for the glass door panel he smashed, and £75 to his mother.